child, what will you live to do?

i don't have any witty story to start off with for this. haha. basically, i read something so interesting today and yet again, right on time, that it made my head do about 500 spins. i feel so close to God when the waves are crashing in front of me. legit. i went in the water today cause it was surprisingly WARM in the north shore, and it just began to hit me. i know the song is over played, but when you look at the ocean, and it literally STOPS at a certain spot... who said so? there was land, and there was water. THIS IS THE VERY CREATION THAT GOD LOOKED AT AND SAID 'IT IS GOOD.' i literally was RIGHT in it. anyway, talk about awesome.

reading nouwen. the dude rocks my life everytime i read him. in "here and now" he writes on relationships. let me lend you a passage.

"Faithfulness, obviously, does not mean sticking it out together to the bitter end. That is no reflection of God's love. Faithfulness means that every decision we make in our lives together is guided by the deep awareness that we are called to be living signs of God's faithful presence among us. And this requires an attentiveness to one another that goes far beyond any formal obligation."

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"...God's faithfulness goes beyond this. God wants not only to be a God FOR us, but also a God WITH us. That happens in Jesus, the Emmanuel who walks with us, talks with us, and dies with us. In sending Jesus to us, God wants to convince us of the unshakeable fidelity of the divine love. Still there is more. When Jesus leaves he says to us, 'I will not leave you alone, but will send you the Holy Spirit.' The Spirit of Jesus is God WITHIN us. Here the fullness of God's faithfulness is revealed. Through Jesus, God gives us the divine Spirit so that we can live a God-like life. The Spirit is the breath of God. It is the intimacy between Jesus and his Father. It is the divine communication. It is God's love active within us."

he then talked about friendships, relationships, etc. and how it is no wonder that our parents are concerned who we surround ourselves with, because they know that those are the people who will determine most, if not all, of our happiness in life.

"To whom do we go to for advice? With whom do we spend our free evenings? With whom are we going on vacation? Sometimes we speak or act as if we have little choice in the matter. Sometimes we act as though we will be lucky if there is anyone who wants to be our friend. But that is a very passive and even fatalist attitude. If we truly believe that God loves us with an unlimited, unconditional love, then we can trust that there are women and men in this world who are eager to show us that love. But we cannot wait passively until someone shows up to offer us friendship. As people who trust in God's love, we must have the courage and the confidence to say to someone through whom God's love becomes visible to us: 'I would like to get to know you, I would like to spend time with you. I would like to develop a friendship with you. What about you?' There will be no's, there will be the pain of rejection. But when we determine to avoid all no's and all rejections, we will never create the milieu where we can grow stronger and deeper in love. God became human for us to make divine love tangible."

DONE.